Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives - Tapa blanda

Vocabulary has been one of the growth areas of language study over the past three decades. In this second edition, Ronald Carter updates progress in key areas of language description and applied linguistics. It includes updated chapters on: vocabulary and language teaching; dictionaries and lexicography; and the literary study of vocabulary. Also included is additional material on the relationship between vocabulary, grammar and discourse and the implications of new insights into vocabulary for the study of speech and writing in English.